certbotRenew

Renew Let's Encrypt certificates with cron on debian / ubuntu

features

• Clones fresh certbot from github.
• Checks if there are certificates to renew and exits if there is nothing to do. (quick an quiet)
• Only if certificates are due, run certbot
• Check for nginx and/or apache are installs and reload configuration
• Only report on errors

usage

Copy certbotRenew to /usr/local/sbin/

Make it executable

Run manualy to install git and pull down fresh version of certbot-auto to /opt/certbot/

wget -qO /usr/local/sbin/certbotRenew https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skuti-is/certbotRenew/master/certbotRenew
chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/certbotRenew
certbotRenew

Add your first certificate

certbot certonly --webroot -w <docRoot> -d <domain> [-d domainalias>]

Update webserver config, your own way, to include certificates.

Add to daily cron

tested

on ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 and should work on most debian based systems.